Sometimes, it is necessary to eat your words. Recently, I reacted to one of my friend's blogs in a holier than thou way because I percieved him to be holier than thou about his blog. I told him that "It is better to empower than to belittle." Those are true words that we should live by and I cannot take them back. But, as irony would have it, I had an opportunity to prey on the weaker and I took it. I jumped on the chance to eat this person alive.
Periodically, a man named Ernie visits our campus to help ease the pain and stress of our daily drag. Though I have never partaken of Ernie's services, he must be pretty good at what he does because they keep letting him come back. For about a buck-a-minute, you could have your muscles melt in Ernie's hands. I am sure you figured out what Ernie does for a living. I am also sure you can figure out why I have not partaken of Ernie's services (yes, I would rather have girl hands on me than someone named Ernie. Besides, Ernie probably spends a lot of time playing with his rubber ducky. Wait a minute, wrong Ernie. (FYI Ernie #2 is from Sesame Street)).
Since the person who used to notify us of Ernie's visits went on to Admin. Heaven (this means she has a cushier job at the administration building of our rather large district) the nice older lady named Maria, who works as the receptionist in the central building of the school spews out the emails that signal Ernie's coming. The email's subject line said "Ernie the measurer."
Being the smartass that I can be sometimes, I sent a reply to her that said something like "What is he measuring? I need a cup of flower?" A little bit later, I realized that in my attempt to be smart, I ended the second sentence with a question mark. The next day, I emailed a friend of mine about this and typed out what I typed to Maria, because I was concerned about having possibly taken a big dump on someones day (someone I really don't even know). Here is what I typed....
Nancy,
I don't know this person, here is what I typed to her.... "What is he measuring? I need a cup of flower." Do you think she will be mad?
I was smart this time and changed the question mark to a period. But, today the thing that should have been most obviously wrong hit me about this email... I should have educated her that it was Masseur or Masseuse and not measurer, because it is better to empower than to belittle. Hehehe.
